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Are you interested in how to leverage the power of the IBM DevOps platform to accelerate your SAFe adoption? Are you interested in how IBM supports SAFe?
If so, you are not going to want to miss these two webcasts.
Mark your calendars!
Date/Time : March 25, 2015, 4PM ET
Title : A SAFe Approach to DevOps
Abstract : An IBM DevOps approach supports the continuous delivery model through an open-standards-based tooling platform to help drive organizational efficiency and effectiveness. The Scaled... [More]

The Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Systems Engineering (SAFe LSE) is now public. SAFe LSE is an extension of SAFe , the market-leading framework for scaling lean and agile principles, that targets engineered products and systems. It's purpose is to provide values, principles, and practices to help build complex, software-intensive products and systems in a lean and agile manner.
SAFe LSE public site - http://safe-lse.com/
Press release - ... [More]

Be a lean startup in an Enterprise. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Yet Enterprises must innovate to stay alive in today’s transparent, interconnected and fast-changing world. In The Lean Startup , Eric Ries defends the position that “ Intrapreneurs [people who are innovating within an established company] have much more in common with the rest of the community of entrepreneurs than most people believe”, that “Entrepreneurship . . . requires a new kind of management specifically geared to its context of extreme... [More]

Themes are percolating in my brain spurred by everything from my Twitter feed , to LinkedIn to hallway conversations with colleagues. There’s a lot of angst about responding to market changes and customer expectations. The techniques we all talk about: Lean , Agile , Continuous Delivery , DevOps , Design Thinking have everyone wondering how to reconcile all of these themes into an action plan to address those expectations.
I keep thinking it doesn’t have to be that complicated. There’s no secret formula that... [More]

Rational Team Concert (RTC) is at the core of IBM’s DevOps solution and the logical starting point for teams looking to get started with SAFe. Through a choice of topologies that include either a single RTC Project Area for small teams or multiple RTC Project Areas for added flexibility and scalability, RTC can be configured today to provide SAFe support that addresses the needs of small and mid-range IT shops as well as large, regulated IT organizations. The choice of topology depends on the characteristics of the organization. To learn... [More]

About two years ago, we started the Learning Circles initiative to provide simple and structured educational material on some IBM Rational products. There are now 11 published Learning Circles that you can leverage for your own enablement, or for self-paced training in your organization.
To align the material with latest product releases, the CLM and the RTC Learning Circles have been recently updated. They now include specific material on CLM 5.0 (and even 5.0.2 for RTC).
Earlier this year, we also worked with Scaled Agile... [More]

The adoption of agile practices has proven successful in helping teams address the business imperative to deliver more value quickly with high quality and lower cost, but agile in isolation does not imply organizational success. As a result, organizations worldwide are exploring how to scale those very same agile and lean principles practiced at the team level across the enterprise -- some are even doing it!
IBM’s DevOps approach supports the continuous delivery model through an open-standards-based tooling platform to help drive... [More]

When software organizations talk about “Going Agile”, they often mean they are adopting a set of agile practices, such as Scrum or XP practices. While this approach does help teach teams the mechanics of agile, this often lead to poorly executed implementations or "Agile-Fall".
Many organizations fail to graphs that a “ A move toward Agile implies that your organization is making a cultural transformation to embrace the Agile values and principles and put them into action. ”
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A few weeks ago during an agile adoption seminar with a program manager considering using agile, I was asked to evaluate approaches to scaling agile practices to support adoption by a large program for their enterprise. This program had already adopted some basic agile practices (such as daily meetings, stories and Scrum) but felt they weren’t getting the benefits that other, smaller teams, got from “going agile”.
At first I thought this would be an easy exercise, given over the years I have had to assist several... [More]

While testing may take as long as it takes, what happens if the time available is less than what is required. Has the application been tested with sufficient coverage so that the organization is releasing with confidence. In today's world, the delivery teams need to look for ways to become more efficient and effective in their testing process and deliver software of higher quality at the speed their customer demand.
To better understand the challenges Testers face, we asked the Testing community about their jobs: what distracts them,... [More]